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Session 12 - Distance Scale.
Display session, Monday, January 13
Metropolitan Ballroom,

[12.02] Supernovae at z=0.35-0.85 and Measurements of Ømega_0, \Lambda, and H_0: Current Status of the Supernova Cosmology Project

S. Deustua, S. Gabi, G. Goldhaber, D. Groom, I. Hook, A. Kim, M. Kim, J. Lee, P. Nugent, C. Pennypacker, S. Perlmutter, I. Small (LBNL/CfPA, Berkeley), A. Goobar (U.Stockholm), R. Pain (IN2P3), R. Ellis, R. McMahon (IoA), B. Boyle, P. Bunclark, D. Carter, M. Irwin (RGO), H. Newberg (FNAL), M. Richmond (Princeton), A. V. Filippenko, T. Matheson (UC Berkeley), K. Glazebrook (AAO), M. Dopita (MSSSO, ANU), W. Couch (UNSW), T. S. C. Project

Our search for high-redshift type Ia supernovae has so far discovered > 28 supernovae. Using a ``batch'' search strategy, almost all were discovered before maximum light and were observed over the peak of their light curves. The spectra and multi-band light curves indicate that almost all were type Ia supernovae at redshifts z = 0.35 -- 0.85. These high-redshift supernovae can provide a distance indicator and ``standard clock'' to study the cosmological parameters Ømega_0, \Lambda, and H_0. This presentation will present observation strategies and rates, analysis and calibration issues, the sources of measurement uncertainty, and cosmological implications of these high-redshift supernovae from our ongoing search.

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